Device for removing cores from cylindrical bales.



Patentd Nov. 5. |90I.

L. W. SPAULDING. DEVICE FOR REMUVING CORES FBUM CYLINDRICAL BA'LES.

(Application med Nov. 2o, 1900.)

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DEVICE FOR REMOVING CORES-FRONI CYLINDRICAL BALES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 685,879, dated November5, 1901.

Application tiled November 20, 1900. Serial No. 37,130. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, LEWIS W. SPAULDING, a citizen ofthe United States,residing at Demopolis,in the county of Marengo and State of Alabama,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Devices for Removing theCores from Cylindrical Bales, oi" which the following is a specication.Y

My invention relates to cotton-Daling machinery, and more particularlyto a device for removing the cores upon which cylindrical cotton balesare formed in the press. Heretofore it has been the common practice todrive these cores out of the bales with a heavy sledge and adriving-pin, a great expenditure of time and labor being involved in theoperation. This method of removing the cores, moreover, often results indefacement of the bales and injury to the cores.

My invention has for its object to do away with this hand operation andthe inconveniences and delays and expenses incident thereto.

With this object in view my invention consists in the novel parts,improvements, and combinations herein shown and described.

The accompanying drawings, which are referred to herein and form a parthereof, illustrate one embodiment of my invention and serve, inconnection with the description herein, to explain the principles of myinvention and the best mode contemplated by me of applying thoseprinciples.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is an end elevation of acore-removing device constructed in accordance With my invention. Fig. 2is a side elevation ot the same with a bale in operative position andthe core partly removed, the bale and the core being shown in section tomore clearly illustrate the operation of the device. Fig. 3 is asectional plan View of the power and clutch devices. Figs. 4, 5, and 6are detail views illustrating the core and the means for connecting thepower devices thereto.

The core-removing device comprises in gen eral a support against whichone end of a cylindrical bale may be placed, a power device,intermediate connections between the power device and the core in thebale, means for readily connecting and disconnecting the intermediateconnections and the core, and automatic means for disconnecting theintermediate connections from the power device when the core has beenremoved.

Referring to the drawings in detail, 1 represen ts the iioor of apress-room, and 2 is the continuously-rotating line-shaft commonlyprovided for driving the presses, said shaft being located below7 thedoor, as shown.

In carrying out my invention I find it most convenient to obtain theforce for withdraw ing the core from the bale directly from the shaft 2.To accomplish this without making it necessary to lift the bale off thefloor 1 or turn it up on end, a horizontal frame 3 is provided andsecured to the iioor 1 with one end above the shaft 2. The opposite endot' the frame 3 is provided with a verticalwall or face-plate 4.,against which the end of a bale 5 of cotton may be placed by simplyrolling the bale into position. The face-plate 4 is provided with a slot6, through which the cores 7 are extracted from the bales. Theintermediate connections between the powershaft 2 and the cores 7consist of a drum 8, loosely mounted upon the shaft 2, a chain or cable9, and a key-pin or bolt 10. One end of the cable 9 is securelyconnected to the drum 8 and the other end is connected to the key-pin10, preferably by a swivel-piece 11. Aguide-wheel 9LL is journaled atthe rear end of the frame 3 to give proper direction to the cable 9 withrelation to the core and power device. The drum 8 may be connected torotate with the shaft 2 when desired by means of a clutch, thelongitudinally-movable member 12 of which is splined on the shaft and isprovided with a clutch-face adapted to engage a correspondingclutch-face formed on the hub ofthe drum S. The' sliding member 12 ofthe clutch is controlled by a lever 13, which is pivoted to a suitablesupport 14C and provided with an arm 15, projecting above the floor 1,so as to be within reach of the operator.

It is desirable to automatically disconnect [he drum S from the shaft 2when the core has been extracted, so as to prevent any injury to thedevice which might be caused by a continued winding of the cable uponthe drum. This is accomplished in the construction shown by providingthe lever 13 with an arm 16, the free end of which is preferably ICOslotted and so located as to embrace the cable 9. The latter is providedwith a projection or collar 17, which is so adjusted as to engage thelarm 16 and operate it to disengage the clutch when the core is loosenedin or entirely removed from the bale.

For the purpose of readily attaching and detaching the cable tothe corethe end 0f the latter is bored out and threaded or otherwise grooved, asat 1S, and then the rthreads or grooves are cutaway or slotted at one ormore points, as at-19, so that the correspondingly threaded andflattened end .20 of the key-pin 10 may be pushed directly into the coreor pulled directlyout thereof and locked or unlocked therein by apartial turn, a handle 21 being provided to facilitate these operations.

The operation of my device havingV been fully set forth in connectionwith the description of the construction, further description thereofwill not be required.

I am aware thatit has been proposed to construct a baling-press with apermanent core and power mechanism forremoving the same from the baleand that the core has been connected to the power mechanism by a swivelconnection which might be taken apart, as shown in the patent toAnderson, No. (5t-8,371. This construction, however, does not constitutethe means for readily connecting the intermediate connections to thecore and disconnecting the same therefrom, which constitutes animportant feature of my invention. By reason of this construction mydevice is adapted to be successively engaged with a pluralityof coresand remove them from the bales after the latterhave been taken out ofthe press. By my invention the operation of vremoving the cores is madeentirely independent of the press and does not interrupt or interfere inany way with the baling operation. A single device, moreover, willremove the cores from the product of several presses, much time andexpensive construction thus being saved. y

My invention in its broader aspects is not limited to the preciseconstruction shown nor to the particular construction by which it may becarried into effect, as many changes may be made therein withoutdeparting from the principles of the invention or sacrificing the mainadvantages thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. A device forremoving the cores from cylindrical bales comprising means for holding abale, a continuously-moving power device,

intermediate connections between the core in the bale and the powerdevice, means for readily connecting the intermediate connections to thecore anddisconnecting the same therefrom, and means forconnecting anddisconnecting the intermediate connections and the power devicesubstantially as described.

2. A device for removing the cores from cylindrical bales comprisingmeans for holding a bale, a power device, intermediate connectionsbetween the core in the bale and the power device, means for readilyconnecting the intermediate connections to the core and disconnectingthe same therefrom and automatic means for disconnecting theintermediate connections from the power device when the core has beenremoved from or loosened in the bale substantially as described.

3. A device for removing the cores from cylindrical bales comprising ahorizontal frame havinga vertical face-plate against which the end of abale may be placed, a continuouslymoving power device below the frame,flexible connections between the core in the bale and the -power device,and means whereby the iiexible connections may be readily connected toor disconnected from both the core and the power device, substantiallyas described.

4. A device for removing the cores from cylindrical bales comprising ahorizontal frame having a vertical face-plate against which the end of abale may be placed, a power device below the frame, flexible connectionsbetween the core in the bale and the power device, means whereby theflexible connections may be readily connected to or disconnected fromthe core, and automatic means for disconnecting the flexible connectionsfrom the power device when the core has been removed from or loosened inthe bale, substantially as described.

5. A device for removing the cores from cylindrical bales comprisingmeans for holding a bale, a power-shaft, flexible connections betweenthe core in the bale and. the powershaft, interlocking devices wherebythe iiexible connections may be readily connected to or disconnectedfrom the core, and a clutch for connecting and disconnecting theflexible connections and the power-shaft, substantially as described.

Signed this 17th day of November, 1900.

LEWIS W. SPAULDING. y{'\,7itiiesses:

Enw. J. GILDEN, E. A. ZAIsER.

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